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Astronomy Library The NewAstro Zone System for Astro Imaging
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Authors: Ron Wodaski and Russell Croman Publisher: New Astronomy Press (2006)
- The NewAstro Zone System for Astro Imaging is the much-awaited book and tutorials on processing your CCD images with Photoshop.
- Takes the guesswork out of processing astronomical images and allows you to get the most out of your work behind the camera.
- The NewAstro Zone System for Astro Imaging contains 256 full color pages, a DVD with video tutorials, free software and other materials.
- The soft-cover book measures 8.9 x 6.8 x 0.7 inches.
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The NewAstro Zone System for Astro Imaging
Photoshop is a powerful tool, but it's also very complicated. The Zone System not only shows you how to process your images in Photoshop, it gives you a complete system for astro image processing. The book is in full color on every page, and you will get a free DVD from the publisher with video training, free software, and other goodies.
"The Zone System grew out of the CCD Imaging Camps I held for the last several years in New Mexico. It is based on painstaking research into how Photoshop works - and why it works the way it does. You won't just learn some useful ways to use Curves; you'll learn the type of curve to use, the correct way to integrate Curves and Levels, and more. The most important thing you'll learn, however, is how to take the guesswork out of processing astronomical images." -- Ron Wodaski
The NewAstro Zone System for Astro Imaging book is based on watching students learn how to work with Photoshop at the Camps. It helps readers to progress by breaking down the steps in Photoshop to their fundamentals Further your education by putting the steps back together in a way that makes sense for astro image processing and showing how to process an image from end to end. You'll find information on developing new ideas on color, signal to noise ratio, and other topics,
but the biggest idea that brings everything together is the Zone System itself. By breaking the image down into manageable zones, you learn how to get the most out of any image you process.
For a breakdown of the zones, please download the sample pages, located in the "Images/Links" tab above, which include a preview of the Zone System, and highlights from a Photoshop tutorial. Please note that the sample pages skip around a bit, to show different features of the book. They are not a complete chapter or section! You will also find a pdf of the Table of Contents in the "Images/Links" tab. Enjoy!
The NewAstro Zone System for Astro Imaging Features...
- Free DVD tutorial*.
- Included software*.
- Bonus materials*.
- Easy to understand step-by-step instructions!
All you have to do to get your free DVD, which includes a tutorial, software, and other bonus materials, is to send your proof of purchase to the publisher, and they will get mail one to you. You can see page 241 in the book for more instructions.
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